change-engine-and-take-on-water

Updated: June 26, 2025

One of those change-engine-and-take-on-water stops with a stucco art-nouveau station, a roof drooping all round it, as if it needed to be shaved off like edges of a pie, and the name of the town writ in conch shells on a green slant of terrace.

Fannie Hurst - The Vertical City